Crafting Wires

2015年5月17日星期日

Sweet Kid Crafts for Children's Day

When asked what is the most creative gift for your kids, that must be handmade gifts, like handmade jewelry which your sweet angle loves most. Not it is the time to make this set of jewelry now. Children's Day is coming quickly. Here it is a collection of 3 sweet crafts for your kids. Enjoy and hope get inspired~
Craft 1: Wavy Bracelet with Pearl Beads

Glass pearl beads are slightly inappropriate for children. This is an easy craft - slide big and small pearl beads onto wire to form a weave wavy pattern, then add jumprings and clasp to finish the bracelet's making.
Craft 2: Pink Butterfly headband for Kids

This is a necessary craft for cute girls, and it isn't a difficult project to follow. Main jewelry making supplies: synthetic turquoise beads, satin ribbon, suede cord and felt.
Craft 3: Wire Wrapped Button Ring - Candy jewelry

The materials used in this craft are easy to prepare, you can use the abandoned craft buttons to make this wire wrapped button ring. This kind of candy jewelry is sweet and cute, great children's day gift!

2015年5月14日星期四

5 Minute Craft - DIY Necklace

I love to make easy craft within 5 minutes. Today I will share another craft which I made in 5 minutes, but it looks catchy! This is a necklace with chains and O rings.
The main materials you will need:
Gold plated chain
3 pieces of 20mm gold O rings
2 pieces of 12mm gold O rings
2 pieces of 5mm gold O rings
image from: thelovelydrawer.com/speedy-diy
How to make this necklace: Open up all the O rings with pliers, so that you can join them to one another as the picture shows, then close each ring again. Attach both ends of chain to the main ring section and close the gaps. Finish!
Here is this beautiful necklace with simple jewelry making supplies.
P.S. If you couldn't find the O rings, you can make similar rings with jewelry wire.
It is a speedy craft! Agree??

2015年5月12日星期二

Simple Craft - Chain Bracelet with Glass Beads

Happy Tuesday! Today I will share a simple craft, which inspired by this outfit on polyvore,gold chain link charm bracelet with glass beads with you.
These lake blue czech glass beads super-clear and glitter well in gold chain link charm bracelet. You will soon fall in love this beautiful and simple bracelet. Let's start!

The main jewelry making supplies you will need:
12mm Blue Czech Glass Beads
16mm Blue Czech Glass Beads
12mm Brass Rhinestone Beads
0.5mm Copper Wire
Jump Rings
Spring Clasp
Iron Chain
Wire Cutter
Round Nose Plier

How to make a chain link bracelet with glass beads:
1. Make a bead link
Wrap a wire as a headpin, and slide czech glass beads and rhinestone beads alternately as the picture shows below, then make a loop and cut off extra wire.
2. Connect bead link with chains
Prepare 2 pairs of 10cm chains, and use jump rings to attach chains to both sides of the bead link.
3. Finish the bracelet
Connect the two end chains together with a spring clasp and a jump ring.

2015年5月9日星期六

Why Should You Order for Wholesale Beads?

The main challenge that jewelers had a few years back was that of acquiring jewelry findings and more specifically enough beds to help them produce jewelry products on wholesale. The scarcity of the beads also made the cost of jewelry to go up, given that only few local stores could afford to sell the beads, and they took advantage of the scarcity and sold the beads at exorbitant costs.

The advent of technology has improved the situation because jewelers can now buy the products online and relax in their homes to wait for the delivery of the order. No one could ever imagine that shopping for huge amounts of products could be done via a simple phone call and the goods delivered on time at your doorstep. Trading has gone global and hence wholesale beads can be sold from a store in one continent, shipped to another continent where complete jewelry products will be designed, and the final product be used in a different corner of the world.

Fashion Trend


Online business people are more informed about the changing fashion trends and hence they update their stock accordingly, unlike the local store that focus on clearing their stock before they reorder. When you buy the wholesale beads online therefore, you will lead your competitors fashion wise, or be able to remain in the competition when others upgrade their designing.

At times, you may even benefit from stock clearance offers that online shops give out, when they want to get rid of the old stock faster to get space to restock as fashion changes. Buying the clearance stock of the wholesale beads does not necessarily mean that the products you will design with them may be obsolete, because you can always be creative and mix them with the ancient jewelry supplies that never lose value.

We all may not be informed about the fashion changes and hence we ought to depend on the online sellers who will advise us on what is coming next so that we can be ready to reconfigure our designing. However, it is prudent to keep in mind that Jewelry design is all about creativity, whether you are working with raw materials that are currently on fashion or those that are out of fashion.

Research is Vital

While wholesale beads are economical for jewelry designers, you will need to check the genuine suppliers because the internet has all sorts of people and so you will have to be careful of whom you are engaging with. Some online sellers are out there to swindle you of your hard-earned money by promising to sell genuine beads to you while what they will send is not what you ordered.


Always deal with reputable online stores that are known to many jewelry designers because of their genuine transactions. Such stores are known by the positive reviews they have on their websites, word of mouth referral from other jewelry designers. Buy wholesale beads from the best sellers to enable you maintain a reputable jewelry business.

2015年5月7日星期四

DIY A Heart Lariat Style Necklace

I keep bookmarking, pinning, and planning to make this nice heart lariat style necklace. This necklace is easy, quick and fun to make and is perfect to make with kids or friends or back-to-school activity! Now let's begin!

Jewelry making supplies you will need to prepare
Drop Electroplate Glass Beads
Brass Chain
0.3MM Copper Wire
Jumprings
Brass Links

Instructions:
step 1
Use 10cm 0.3mm copper wire and drop glass beads to make 7 bead dangles.

step 2
Use jumprings to attach these 7 bead dangles to the end 35cm brass chain circle. Keep the distance as the below picture shows.

step 3
Connect the two brass chains by a heart brass link.

How about this easy craft? Would you like to have a try? Very glad to see your comments below.

2015年5月5日星期二

Resin Rhinestone Bead Crafts

Resin rhinestone beads have bright shin and vivid colors which are reasonable in price and soft in texture. They are beads consist of many small resin beads, which will give you a feeling of crystal-clear and sparking. Many jewelry designers like to use resin rhinestone beads to match with jumprings, hooks and pins to be bracelets, earrings, necklaces, even rings.


Here I will share some crafts with resin rhinestone beads which can to be basketball wives jewelry such as brasketball wives earrings, and let you all show the unique charms. The detailed beads: Chunky Resin Rhinestone Beads, Mixed Color,12mm



So which one is your most favorite idea to use these beads? Very glad to see your sharings. Please comment below.

2015年5月2日星期六

Why Customers Go for Wooden Beads


Jewelry enthusiasts will always want to go for unique pieces and that is why you will find many jewelers trying to get unique suppliers to design outstanding products. Even though the professionalism of a designer is what determines the outcome of his products, some supplies such as wooden beads make all the difference when it comes to unique pieces.

Jewelry designing is an art that requires a lot of creativity, and so designers try different ways to make their products attractive and marketable, because if one does not beat competition the business will lose relevance and all the effort will be in vain. Wooden beads can help a designer make magnificent jewelry pieces if used properly. Using the beads is easy too due to the way they are designed. Some other types will give you a hectic time but beads curved from wood are flexible to use.


The beads are readily available given that they are made from wood, a raw material that is easily available too. Unlike most of the jewelry supplies, wooden beads can be bought from the local stores near you although there is no guarantee that you will get the specific design you need. The good thing about these beads is that they can be decorated to give different impressions such as glass, enamel or any appearance you may need. When you buy them from online stores, you will get a wide variety of them, some of which will not look like wood to you.

You can even request for customized wood beads if you are purchasing them from professional and veteran suppliers, who have the skills to personalize the wooden beads to appear just as you would want. The modern technology has improved the way things are done and this has enabled producers to give the beads attractiv finishes just like the client would want. The use of these beads has many advantages, and one of the main ones is the weight. Beads that are curved from wood are super-light and hence the pieces they make feel very comfortable on the wearer. Have you ever wondered how ladies manage to have huge pieces of earrings dangling from their earlobes all day and never feel the discomfort? Most probably, the stunning piece you see is made from wooden beads.

Flexibility of using them


Wooden beads can be paired with other types of beads to bring out a magnificent piece of artwork. When you are looking at creating jewelry and enhancing their appearance with pendants and charms, wooden beads will be perfect for that purpose. Huge beads made from wood can be designed to have the exact appearance you want. Apart from creating jewelry products, wooden beads are used in making seat covers, tablemats and door or window blinds. Such designs give your house or car the antique design that will amaze everyone.


We all like to have beautiful things and that is what wooden beads offer us, and they come with an additional advantage of scent. Some special trees that are used for wooden beads offer that natural smell that is loved artistic nature lovers.